I've told you before that I have a thing for postcards, so the fact that I bought this literary postcard set by Obvious State Studio on the day it came out shouldn't really surprise you. Bibliophilia contains 100 gorgeous, matte postcards, each ...

This summer was hot, humid, and full of sunshine. In other words, it was amazing. But as we're nearing the end of September, I feel it is perhaps time that I start to let it go. Soon it will be October and the leaves will be falling. I'll be making pumpkin pie and drinking tea under a ...

"Wonderful what Hollywood will do to a nobody. It will make a radiant glamour queen out of a drab little wench who ought to be ironing a truck driver's shirts, a he-man hero with shining eyes and brilliant smile reeking of sexual charm out of some overgrown kid who was meant to go ...

If you're going to raise a glass to F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'd better stock up on the gin. It was, after all, his drink of choice. Apparently he thought that gin couldn't be detected on his breath. Whether that's true or not, Fitzgerald was known to drink a Gin Rickey now and again, which is a ...

Are you reading Lucky Peach yet? If not, you should be. The next issue comes out in May and I realized the other day that I'd barely cracked the spine of the current issue, which is all about Obsession. ...

I was intimidated by the Library Bar at the Fairmont Royal York when I first went in. The room was dark, the clientele well-dressed. Even the leather chairs looked posh. But I sat down anyway, ignoring the looks I was getting from my server. Maybe ...

I feel like everyone is all about The Great Gatsby right now (including me). Between the movie coming out this spring and fashion magazines going on about how hot the Gatsby look is on the runways (whatever that means), it seems like F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic book is having a moment.
So instead ...